470 Claims Quotes & Sayings

For me, coming to work and laughing is so much more preferable than coming to work and having to cry over a corpse or something. That's a drag. — Busy Philipps

Everyday, in our quest to grab the new, the trendy, the coolest stuff, we forget to use the old and our daily lives become stuck in the vicious cycle, chasing after stuff without working the old. Today, pause, slow down, take time, revisit those lessons, materials and take the necessary baby-steps. It pays. Go, make it happen! — Bernard Kelvin Clive

THE SENTIMENTALIZATION OF CHILDHOOD has produced a great many paradoxes. The most curious, however, may be that children have acquired more and more stuff the more useless they have become. Until the late nineteenth century, when kids were still making vital contributions to the family economy, they didn't have toys as we know them. They played with found and household objects (sticks, pots, brooms). In his book Children at Play, the scholar Howard Chudacoff writes, Some historians even maintain that before the modern era, the most common form of children's play occurred not with toys but with other children - siblings, cousins, and peers. — Jennifer Senior

Kindness and generosity ... form the true morality of human actions. — Madame De Stael

Integrity is a bugger, it really is. Lying can get you into difficulties, but to really wind up in the crappers try telling nothing but the truth. — David Mitchell

Ah, ye brethren, that God whom I created was human work and human madness, like all the Gods! — Friedrich Nietzsche

By coming forward and sharing your story, you don't know the countless lives you change. — Mariska Hargitay

The power of applying attention, steady and undissipated, to a single object, is the sure mark of superior genius. — Lord Chesterfield

Nothing is impossible for pure love. — Mahatma Gandhi

You are far too cynical for someone your age."

"Well people are disappointing!" Thorn said.

"Yes, but they are also complicated. I would wager there is something about him you do not know. It is the only thing we can ever say about people with absolute certainty: that we don't know the whole story. — Carolyn Gilman

It was a big surprise when I started to get attention in Sweden, going from biochemistry studies to touring and living from music only. There were a couple of years while I went to university when I was OK with thinking of music as just a nice recreation. — Jose Gonzalez

We'll look for almost any reason not to change our attitudes; the inertia of the established order is powerful. If we can think of a plausible, or even implausible, reason to discount environmental warnings, we will. — Bill McKibben